Watch the Gossip Girl Threesome Tonight!

Why am I promoting Gossip Girl? I’ve never watched an episode of the show before, nor does it really ever interest me. Well, usually, anyway. But I recommend that you all get your friends and family members together, from the little kiddies to the great grandparents, and sit down for a nice, wholesome night of Gossip Girl. Why?

Well, you might think I’m recommending watching Gossip Girl tonight because of the alleged threesome that is going to take place. Blake Lively is hot, and from what I’ve seen in pictures, the other women/girls in the show are pretty smoking as well. For the ladies, the guys are probably pretty good looking to. And how can you go wrong with a threesome, albeit a watered-down-for-CW-television threesome?

But that’s not what I’m recommending you watch the show tonight. You should watch Gossip Girl tonight because the Parents Television Council (PTC) says you shouldn’t. In fact, they don’t think anyone should, and that’s why they attempted to persuade affiliates of the CW to refuse to carry tonight’s episode (airing on the CW at 9/8c). I don’t like censorship. I especially don’t like fundamentalists trying to dictate what I can and can’t watch. If a threesome in Gossip Girl offends you, fine – I can understand that – but do you know what you do when something’s on television that you don’t like? You don’t watch the damn program. That’s right, you change the channel. Or you turn the TV off. Put in a DVD. A Blu-Ray. A Barney VHS. I don’t care. But don’t tell me what I can and can’t watch, and even worse, don’t try to persuade people who have the power to control what I can and can’t watch.

We need to teach the Parents Television Council that their efforts do the exact opposite of what they set out to do. As a result of their shenanigans (by the way, The Los Angeles Times reports that not a single affiliate nor advertiser has dropped out of tonight’s Gossip Girl threesome episode), they’ve only drawn more attention to the show and have convinced people like me that I should check it out. If you want to report on how family friendly a show is – and their website does that – fine, that’s a good resource, but don’t try to censor America. Give guidance, and people who agree with your views will listen to you. People who don’t will still be free to do and watch what they want.

Shame on you, Parents Television Council. At least you made the CW happy by giving their show free promotion.

UPDATE: I watched what I could of the episode, but the show is so incredibly bad that I fastforwarded to the G-rated threesome scene. That was a waste of 20 minutes. I sort of knew it, but was hoping for more nonetheless.